Love Quotes



A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman.


A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
Cyrano de Bergerac


A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke


A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle


A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan


A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche


A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal


A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac


Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis


All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews


All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton


As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare


At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato


Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner


Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu


Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach


Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Samuel Lover


Do all things with love.
Og Mandino




First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw


For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland


Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid


Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron


Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein


How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Barbara Pym


I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
Theodore Dreiser


I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Judy Garland


I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa


I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
George Eliot


I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger


If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Emmet Fox


If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne


If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne


If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid


Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm


In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm


It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel de Unamuno


It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Shirley MacLaine


Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa


Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo


Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Khalil Gibran


Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
David Grayson


Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
Javan



Love conquers all.
Virgil


Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke


Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. Baldwin


Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire


Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara de Angelis


Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor


Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw


Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare


Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides


Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia


Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost


Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery


Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle


Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia


Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken


Love is love's reward.
John Dryden


Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller


Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst


Love is my religion - I could die for it.
John Keats



Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham


Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset


Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine




Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno


Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken


Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon


Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.
Darren L. Johnson


Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Plato


Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht


Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac


Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.
Theodor Adorno


Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
Daniel S. Greenberg


Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken


Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi


Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber


Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton


Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.
Loretta Young


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston


Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Erich Segal


Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin


Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas


Love that is not madness is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil Gibran




Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Barbara de Angelis


Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery


More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne


Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald


Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke


One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho


People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
John Harrigan


Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve


Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne


Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Tammy Wynette


Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette


Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning


The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis


The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers


The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn


The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
Edwin Louis Cole


The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Honore de Balzac


The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo


The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore


The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa


The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti


The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch


The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anais Nin


The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton


There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
Alphonse de Lamartine


There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Thomas Fuller


There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld


There is no limit to the power of loving.
John Morton


There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
Charles Morgan


There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Helen Hayes


Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke


'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson


To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton


To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell


To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
Henry Drummond


To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Alphonse de Lamartine


To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."
Ayn Rand




True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld


We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli


We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham


We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe


We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Jean de la Bruyere


We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins


What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Pearl Bailey


Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte


When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca


When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
Gwendolyn Brooks


When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney


Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather


Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi


Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius


Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde


Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad


You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
Werner Erhard


You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond


Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt









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